Georgian era

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The Georgian era was a period of British history from the early 18th to early 19th century marked by the reigns of the first four King Georges and characterized by expanding empire, Enlightenment thought, and distinctive architecture and arts.


Statements (108)
Predicate Object
instanceOf historical era
period of British history
country Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
endTime 1830
followedBy Regency era
Victorian era
follows Late Stuart era
Stuart period
hasCharacteristic Bloody Code criminal laws
Blue and Buff Whig fashion
Enlightenment thought
Georgian social dancing
Methodist movement
Palladian revival
antiquarian interest in the past
assembly rooms culture
china and porcelain collecting
classical education ideals
coffee and tea consumption
coffeehouse culture
coffeehouse political debate
coffeehouse-based financial trading
country house culture
development of English landscape garden style
development of banking and finance
development of museums and collections
development of party politics
distinctive architecture
duelling culture
early railways
enclosure of common lands
evangelical revival
expansion of legal profession
expansion of parliamentary power
fashion for Grand Tour
growth of industrial towns
growth of insurance industry
growth of medical profession
growth of newspapers
growth of print culture
growth of professional classes
growth of public concerts
growth of public theatres
growth of slavery-based plantation economy in colonies
growth of the middle class
import of sugar and tobacco
impressment in the Royal Navy
improvement in policing in London
improvement in roads and canals
increased literacy
interest in classical antiquity
landscape gardening
mapping and surveying of Britain
naval supremacy
neoclassical style
overseas colonial expansion
patriarchal family structure
patronage system in politics
planned squares in cities
polite society norms
politeness and refinement ideals
press gangs for naval service
primogeniture in inheritance
rapid urbanization
reform movements
religious pluralism
rise of Romanticism in later years
rise of abolitionist movement
rise of consumer culture
rise of philanthropic movements
rise of seaside resorts
rise of the novel
rotten boroughs
salon culture
satirical art and literature
scientific exploration and voyages
scientific societies
spa town culture
stock market speculation
terraced housing development
transition from Baroque to neoclassical arts
transportation of convicts to colonies
turnpike trusts
hasPart Agricultural Revolution in Britain
American Revolutionary War
Enlightenment in Britain
Industrial Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
Seven Years' War
reign of George I of Great Britain
reign of George II of Great Britain
reign of George III of the United Kingdom
reign of George IV of the United Kingdom
namedAfter George I of Great Britain
George II of Great Britain
George III of the United Kingdom
George IV of the United Kingdom
significantEvent Acts of Union 1800
French Revolutionary Wars
Gordon Riots
Irish Rebellion of 1798
Peterloo Massacre
Union with Ireland
abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire
expansion of the British Empire in India
loss of the Thirteen Colonies
startTime 1714

Referenced by (42)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
Edmund Nelson
George I of Great Britain
George III of the United Kingdom
J. Dodsley
John Bellingham
John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich
Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Prince Octavius of Great Britain
Queen Adelaide
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
William IV
era
Jacobite rising of 1745
Jacobite risings
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Lord Charles Cavendish
Paymaster of the Forces
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1801–1816)
The English Chronicle
Thomas Bentley
To Anacreon in Heaven
Whig Party
historicalPeriod
Agricultural Revolution in Britain
Elinor Dashwood ("Regency era")
Mellerstain House interiors
Navy Board
timePeriod
Georgian era ("Regency era")
Stuart period
followedBy
Pump Room
Royal Crescent
notablePeriod
Cheltenham ("Regency")
architecturalStyle
Coronation of George II
associatedWith
Jacobite rising of 1719 ("Georgian era in Britain")
conflictIn
Jane Austen Centre ("Regency era")
focusesOn
Victorian era
follows
Coronation of George IV
historicalEra
King’s Theatre, Haymarket
historicalPeriodOfProminence
Jane Austen ("Regency era literature")
movement
Georgian architecture
partOf
Dorothy Fane ("Georgian England")
placeOfActivity
Sense and Sensibility (1995 film) ("Regency era")
setInPeriod
Blackadder ("Regency era")
settingPeriod

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